New NASA spacesuit from Axiom Space promises better fit for Artemis III moonwalkers

NASA and Axiom Space are unveiling the design of the new spacesuit that will be worn by the next man and first woman to land on the moon as part of the Artemis III mission. Mark Strassmann traveled to Houston to get a sneak peek of the new suit.
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[@RATsnak3]

Peggy Whitson is truly a remarkable woman. She's 63 and STILL planning on going BACK to the ISS. Just incredible.

[@TheAngelArrow]

she's gonna get alzheimer's mid flight & become a risk

[@07Flash11MRC]

@@TheAngelArrow Lmfao, @TheAngelArrow. You're just jealous that she achieved more in one year of her life than you ever will in your entire life. SHe'll be remembered when she dies, you won't.

[@lifeoflw84]

Space travel is so awesome and to go back to the moon than mars.. like wow… Come on 2025!!!

[@chosenjuan3170]

I know right almost hard to believe ! 😂😂

[@lifeoflw84]

Beyond fascinating… such a mystery

[@hikesystem7721]

Yeah, but now it's for exploitation, so it's nothing like Apollo.

[@PanzerBuyer]

Mars for exploring but living there will really be challenging.

[@zakiulrifat6913]

​​@@PanzerBuyer Yup people are getting overhyped for mars thinking it will be like earth without knowing anything about mars. Mars is totally different from earth.

[@dylangtech]

The number of dad jokes in this is wild..... Uranus and "Axiom Space Station" jokes were too hot for television. I love space.

[@fredlandry6170]

So cool! Hopefully everything goes well in 2025.

[@MinusEighty]

Do you think we are going to the moon in 2025?

[@fredlandry6170]

@@MinusEighty God willing.

[@MinusEighty]

@@fredlandry6170 Seems a tad unlikely. A return to the moon is always 5 years away. It has been that way for 50 years......

[@zakiulrifat6913]

​@@MinusEighty nah not possible on 2025. 2027 or 2028.

[@artdonovandesign]

When this Moon Landing happens, every young person in the entire world and who has access to the streaming broadcast should watch it. It will be the single most important thing- THE most important human endeavor- they will ever witness in their lives- bar none! There maybe a little kid, somewhere in the world who'll watch it and be so riveted, so mind blown- that they will grow up to create something that will change the entire future of humanity ----for the better!

[@henkdeklapsteen6787]

Succes beyond earth without having a healthy planet without wars and with uncureable diseases isnt succes.

[@tyler7937]

We’re gonna see Humans on mars in our lifetime, probably the invention of A.I, and end it with a grand finale of full on strategic nuclear war with Russia and China

[@georgevanrossem43]

They should set up a lunar station up there.

[@verticalfracture]

they are its called gateway

[@chosenjuan3170]

Or spend more time fixing problems we have here on earth! 😀

[@octaviondeminicolas1941]

@@chosenjuan3170 Asteroid mining, technological development and processing minerals outside of Earth's atmosphere is more than enough reason.

[@WaterPickle]

@@octaviondeminicolas1941 yes 1000% yes i agree

[@jordansmith7621]

@@chosenjuan3170 7.8 billion people on earth - we can do both. And thousands of technologies we use today came from the space programs. So space exploration benefits all mankind.

[@DirtCobaine]

What a tasteful suit. About time our astronauts get to look as stylish as they are safe/comfortable in their suit. Looks like a Hard Sci Fi suit. I just hope to see more iterations everywhere when it comes to space exploration and technology.

[@totallylegityoutubeperson4170]

Total The Expanse vibes with that.

[@DirtCobaine]

@@totallylegityoutubeperson4170 my favorite show! Lol it’s amazing how many fans of the show I find on the internet yet it was canceled. By far the most successful show and coolest universe Amazon Originals has ever produced

[@HeatherHolt]

There’s a giant balloon that takes you to the edge of the atmosphere, for 125,000$. In 50 years, we could see vacations to the moon for the rich. In 100, we could be ON the moon. It’s just crazy to think what the future could bring.

[@chosenjuan3170]

Sounds fun! I can't wait til we're in space so excited!

[@CausticLemons7]

@@chosenjuan3170 Dude, we're in space right now!

[@chosenjuan3170]

@@CausticLemons7 Are you? I'm still here on Earth dude.

[@CausticLemons7]

@@chosenjuan3170 Earth is in space, and it and everything in our solar system is hurtling around the galaxy ridiculously fast. Just stop moving and look at the sky, you'll feel starship Earth beneath your feet...

[@chosenjuan3170]

@@CausticLemons7 I just did that. You say ridiculously fast? Feels super slow to me. Who told you something so ridiculous? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@cherylb2008]

Someday in the future, this will be routine.

[@mountainaire7382]

NASA is in my backyard. We also go to church and live close to some of the astronauts and many NASA employees. Houston and NASA, and all the companies that support this industry, you make us proud!

[@l.tallmadge6536]

Great to see Charlie Duke! CAPCOM for Apollo 11, and more!

[@artdonovandesign]

Yeah, right? 😊

[@barbarafogle3541]

The last thing you want is chaffed nuts while you're going 10k mph

[@chosenjuan3170]

I disagree. Last thing they want is the greenscreen coming through😂😂

[@octaviondeminicolas1941]

@@chosenjuan3170 which one of the Apollo missions do you think was fake? The Apollo missions went up to Apollo 17 from 1968 to 1972. Even the soyuz-apollo collaboration mission with the Russians in earth orbit was in 1975. Were the space shuttles fake? Were all the space stations fake? Are the space satellites we use for signals fake?

[@DirtCobaine]

Can’t wait to experience what everyone watching experienced during Apollo 11!! Amazing. I think it’s a good sign we are going back to the moon finally.

[@Byehk2047]

Can't wait to see astronauts using first person cameras to film us 8kHDR videos on the MOON

[@theodoreroberts3407]

I'd like to know more about the suites.

[@TheGuyWhoComments]

Me too

[@hikesystem7721]

We all would. But much of the technology is secret and proprietary now.

[@artdonovandesign]

Yes. Me, too! I watched Neil and Buzz walk into eternal Earth history that night in 1969. I never forgot that for sure. My jaw was wide open. My friends and our parents were huddled in our living room around the old console TV in Long Beach, NY and we... were...absolutely speechless!!!

[@rebeccadubois8270]

Should've brought a little grabber to pick things up on top of more articulation.

[@jahmelbrown85]

Them shoes were made for moon walking? Why not turn up some Michael Jackson music and give it a go ..

[@gjman1972]

That spacesuit looks like my snowmobiling gear I hope they at least have other colors.

[@mysticmarble94]

It will be white again on he moon due to using the same temp resistant mylar material as during Apollo.

[@mopthermopther]

I bought one. For the costume ball. 🎶 💃 🪩 🕺🏻

[@razgriz9396]

So it have a door like Orlan spacesuit

[@DirtCobaine]

Are they going to the South Pole to look for water? I mean we already know there is water but to confirm it in person is another thing. It sparks momentum. If it’s there we can mine it. Which is a critical step to putting habs on the moon. Which will be invaluable experience to replicate on mars. Then from there, the rest of the system. It’s not just about exploration. There are so many resources out there. We don’t have to fight over the limited ones we have on this rock. I know it’s hard for people to understand but looking to space actually does solve our problems we have here.

[@citizenblue]

Good to see Artemis on MSM... Funny seeing StarShip lunar variant on screen while name dropping NASA, Axiom, and the Artemis program, but no SpaceX...

[@LifewithLewy]

Don’t you understand that’s what this piece is all about? When is the last time the media cared about space? Only when it’s in opposition of Elon Musk.. that’s it.. SpaceX was going to make the suits. This is purely an anti elon/space X piece without saying so.

[@citizenblue]

@@LifewithLewy my thoughts exactly!

[@LifewithLewy]

@@citizenblue as soon as I saw the thumbnail I new what was happening lol but I watched anyway

[@unclegeemus]

@@LifewithLewy Am I crazy seems like Elon could do this in six days sleeping in not 60 years.

[@Astroponicist]

Going to Luna last time required a large number of institutions from, commercial, academic, military, governmental, & media. It is only appropriate to this report to mention those companies with the most immediate relevance to the development of the suits in the story. It is nice to see a Starship as an Easter egg. Prayers to every company working to open the way for Humanity to explore space.

[@astudentpilotlife]

If only we are competiting like in For All mankind tv show

[@theussmirage]

We are, with China. They're not too far behind!

[@EngineerKeita]

Look how dapper that man is

[@davehedgehog9795]

MJ loves the new boots

[@ron.hertzberg]

Watching people try to maneuver on the moon is hilarious

[@pirobot668beta]

NASA was horsing around with 'hard-suits' in the 1960's: AX-2 Project. Rigid shells and rotating 'slip-rings'. It avoided 'inflation stiffness' of cloth suits. The Axiom suit seems to borrow heavily from that program. How do I know about hard-suits? US Patent 3,405,406. The sleeves for my hard-suit replica: kzbin.info/www/bejne/f16Ql3hod9-ims0

[@ristube3319]

3:06 “these boots were made for moonwalking” …and that’s just what they’ll do…one of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you (the moon)

[@totallylegityoutubeperson4170]

We never found out about what Michele was getting at. That was dude seemed pretty miffed about rhe vapid questions.

[@openleft4214]

I think around 400 million was spent on a nasa design that was scraped

[@lazarusblackwell6988]

Dissapointed. Where are the on board suit computers?

[@h.plovecraftn-4307]

Man this thing is so cool look like a science-fiction from the expand 😊

[@nolanohana]

All future flights are on hold as we do not have a working suit for the moon, fail.

[@madudebrouchiha2509]

exacting & exactly in the same sentence should be a crime

[@unclegeemus]

Wear a Speedo and flip flops. How can you go to the 'cold' side and decide to make the suit 4 times thinner and put on boots from Cabelas? We should send a dog up again.

[@matthewkegley28]

Wait a minute... the moon is 400 below zero. On another science topic, why not we build quantum computers on the moon? It would be cold enough to reduce noise. Could we send radio signals to communicate with systems for repairs? And program a robot/rover to do them instead of people? If we needed more supplies, send them via rocket!

[@Pinebox-vo9te]

Uh, well, No. Alike earth the moons temperature depends upon contact to sunlight. It can get well over 250 degrees Fahrenheit. With no atmosphere for protection, it acts alot more predictably, primarily because when not in contact with sunlight, the surface gets to near around negative 208. About the radio signals, Uh, yeah? They’re an EM wave. They need to be amplified by relay satellites typically. About “cold enough to reduce the noise” there wouldn’t be noise period, its a vacuum. For robots made for repair, that I believe is in the works for Post SLS B1 missions, and surface + orbital supplies via automated LV’s is planned. Primarily with Dragon XL to LGWSS, and I believe with Blue origin for surface resupply.

[@chosenjuan3170]

Here's an idea! Like ways to help solve our problems here on earth! 😂😂

[@han-tyumitheconfusedcyborg1656]

​@@chosenjuan3170 Things in space help tremendously down here, you're not smart

[@wntrsoul]

@@han-tyumitheconfusedcyborg1656 “you’re not smart🤓 “i don’t see what this will do for ocean acidification…

[@han-tyumitheconfusedcyborg1656]

@@wntrsoul look up sentinel 3, that is the first thing that comes up to my mind, there is most likely so much more

[@daviddiscenza3187]

I'd like to see how flexible it is in a vacuum.

[@07Flash11MRC]

A true vacuum doesn't exist anywhere in the universe. Testing the suits underwater is the closest we can get to the conditions outside of earth's orbit.

[@SiikPros]

They should go to the original landing site to prove to everyone they went there the first time

[@manemperorofmankind8119]

Wouldn’t matter, they’d still think it was fake even if the deniers went to the moon thenselves

[@javierhillier4252]

they flew over the site and took photos of it even the Russians did that to make sure USA wasn't lying

[@SiikPros]

@@manemperorofmankind8119 after posting this comment I realized I'm dumb. I thought there was only 1 lunar landing. Lunar landing deniers probably think there was (or wasnt) only one mission!

[@manemperorofmankind8119]

@@SiikPros haha I didn’t realize there was multiple landings either till you just told me! Should of realized it after watching the video haha

[@Pinebox-vo9te]

Thats likely a plan for after LGWSS is setup, and for after basic bases have been established on the south-pole.

[@michaelgraham9525]

He didn't come .

[@budjeansonne4482]

Wait a minute, didn't we have space suits that worked perfectly in 1969? Why do we need to spend millions to develop a new space suit?

[@ramoncastillo532]

Did you even see the video these news suits work for more people, like women, and you can move better in them with better movability, and for colder conditions like the moon South Pole regions.

[@JoshusBarber]

Plus, the old suits are no longer functioning properly due to their old age, and repairing them is difficult because the parts used in them have been out of production for decades

[@murc111]

Definitely shows how pathetic the government is, after 15 years and millions of dollars, they gave up, and a private company built it for them in a fraction of the time.

[@fellowearthling1632]

Private companies have built almost the entirety of our space industry, as well as our military. Only the actual rocket section of the Saturn V was built in-house for example, the suits and everything else was contracted. The difference now is that NASA lets them advertise it themselves. Plus, they’re all American companies, and it’s all made in the USA. It’s still a win.

[@walterhumanolo5586]

NASA did most of the research private companies actually build it.

[@helifanodobezanozi7689]

Besides the two points already posted, you also have to consider the difference in budget between Apollo and Artimus. In today's dollars, each Apollo launch cost roughly $22.6 billion vs $8 billion for each Artimus launch. The issue wasn't that they couldn't do it, it was that they couldn't do it in time for 2025 on a little over the 1/3 the budget.

[@xivanquishix3456]

Comments like this are so incredibly ignorant. The private companies had 90% of the research and development done for them over 15 years. And general technologies they are using to assist them, including robotics, has come a long way as well. Add to this, the fact the private contractors have a larger bandwidth of talent to bring in than NASA… the list goes on and on. The next time you make such a rhetorical and ignorant statement, keep it to yourself.

[@fredricclack7137]

👍 🖤 🚫 🌌🚀

[@oldbloke135]

This demo is a bit pointless. They need to inflate the suit to 30 psi to show us on Earth what it will really be like when it's used in vacuum. I read a book where Alexei Leonov, the first man to walk in space, said his suit expanded so much his hands were no longer in his gloves and he was barely able to get back in the airlock!

[@dedyzee]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@dedyzee]

no man has climbed to the moon except in Hollywood

[@olivergrumitt2601]

Then prove it!

[@CharlesHickson-eu5js]

Your thoughts on the current controlled EXTRATERRESTRIAL reality disclosure process and related US GOV cover-up? Once the uneasy, contagious giggling subsides, how will our civilization adapt to this publicly known reality? What might be some of the potential implications of disclosure of this reality? New energy sources perhaps? Transportation? Religions? History? The economy? Perhaps it leads to confirmation of an established "secret" space program? Do we really want to know the complete story?

[@xermionthesecond4396]

have you taken your meds today, Charles?

[@CharlesHickson-eu5js]

@@xermionthesecond4396 Come on X, the questions can't be that difficult?

[@ericclaptonsrobotpilot7276]

2025 is not gonna happen. 2030 if we are lucky.

[@fellowearthling1632]

Yeah, not sure why they said 2025. Artemis II’s optimistic goal is November 2024 and III’s is winter 2026, and delays are inevitable. NASA’s been more than clear about that.

[@JRIVERA1124]

Is no good don't pass me , they need it better and strong....that will never rip up or hit you with rocks sharp like a blade...😢

[@unclegeemus]

i made exception to smiley face for you yes this is like a hiking suit from target. but remember the guy is holding a walking stick should be fine

[@6ofwrev704]

And I'll bet my bottom dollar that they won't find a flag up there either.

[@theoneeasyreg680]

Unfortunately they won't find your dad either

[@batman_2004]

@@theoneeasyreg680 😀😂

[@shingekinokyojinbiteszadus7265]

Unfortunately they won't find any flat earth either

[@dwarvenmoray]

They're gonna be miles away on the South pole of the Moon for Artemis

[@johnathanmann1120]

There is no better way to ensure dead astronauts than to base your missions on DEI goals. Astronauts should picked based in a racial, ethnic, and or sexual blind manner. It should be the absolute best astronauts we can possibly send and stop worrying about checking diversity boxes.

[@l.tallmadge6536]

NASA was way ahead in the issues you talk of. We had no dead astronauts on ANY space missions.

[@HansenSWE]

But the gear should be built as if the next astronaut could be a random person, dragged off the street for some involuntary space-work.

[@PUN1SH3R438]

@@HansenSWE Why would we send a random person off the street into space? Do you realize the skills needed to accomplish anything out in space? This isn't the movies like Armageddon where Nasa just finds farmers and oil rig workers to do space missions.

[@HansenSWE]

@@PUN1SH3R438 You misunderstood my comment entirely. My comment was about gear.

[@GearZNet]

We're not going to the moon. This is just PR to keep interest and money flowing into NASA. If Elon can't figure his rocket out we're trapped here for another 50+ years if not more.

[@russdoehrmann9098]

Designed for hunchbacked little old ladies

[@unclegeemus]

Designed for Portland Riots which are 465 degrees warmer.

[@Fluffy_Rumples]

Why that flag have so much starch?

[@KatharineOsborne]

If they used a regular flag on the moon it would just hang limply because there is no atmosphere to make it flutter. So they put a rod in the top to stretch it out so you can see the design. Fun fact: the first flag on the moon fell over when the lander took off again as it was placed too close and got hit with the dust thrown up by the engine. It is likely covered by dirt and is the only flag that still retains its colours because it is protected from UV light by the Sun. All the other flags placed are now bleached white from the sunlight.

[@chosenjuan3170]

Heard they plan on sending the first trans woman up to set up the rainbow flag.

[@xermionthesecond4396]

@@chosenjuan3170 unfunny unoriginal

[@chosenjuan3170]

@@xermionthesecond4396 must be a leftist. That's too bad.

[@MinusEighty]

15 years to develop, but they did it in the 1960's without all of the rigid joints? Strange.

[@xObscureMars]

So disappointed that they are not keeping them black.

[@javarjv]

They should have put more metal covering around the face,, make it look like the dead space suits, that would be bad a, I'm sure it could be done, Idk about the thrusters, that is some iron man tech, but the look and protection of the suit could definitely be done and it would look epic, that is the main thing that takes away from the suit, that dumb clear globe

[@ryanmcginniss3217]

Hast thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass? -Job 37:18 Don't trust these deceivers. We live under the firmament.

[@chewychicken1311]

corny

[@asfasfd7772]

I wondered who is going to direct the fake moon landing this time?

[@somatotrophin1535]

Shut up

[@chosenjuan3170]

I'm hoping James Cameron ! Avatar 2 was mesmerizing!

[@neilfitzsimmons1800]

They now have the technology now to fake it realistically this time round.

[@olivergrumitt2601]

Those who went to the Moon over 50 years ago would find your comments offensive - if you said that to Buzz Aldrin he will do to you what he did to Bart Sibrel in 2002, even though he is now 93 years old.

[@asfasfd7772]

@@olivergrumitt2601 No, he would probably run away scared like John Glenn when confronted about the truth.

[@philiplongee1149]

What’s with the black and red color? Hard to see against the blackness of space. I hate these even more than the last versions that were blue and white like the Russian suits. White suits are our traditional color (perhaps silver too) and would help with temperature regulation since the astronauts wear water-cooled underwear so they don’t overheat during an EVA. Those cramped arm holes just look really painful too. I can’t imagine the discomfort from an 8 hour EVA with their arms confined like that.

[@mistajacmac]

You didn’t watch the video

[@bluesusername]

1:40

[@johnthomas338]

LOL at all the comments by people on here who actually believe that NASA is going to go 'back' to the Moon in their lifetime... Just laughable. There will be excuse after excuse, delay after delay, for DECADES, and they will never, ever get to the Moon...

[@unclegeemus]

The woke walk. Stretch it out to the election then say the moon actually melted from climate change oops.

[@gabebellone1219]

Next man better be a black man on god..

[@Pinebox-vo9te]

I believe thats in the plans for Artie 3, alongside a female astro for the two landing. We won’t know until April though, lol.

[@chosenjuan3170]

Nope they already said a Trans woman will be going to plant a huge rainbow flag.

[@adaeptzulander2928]

Why? WTF does anybody owe anybody something?

[@dwarvenmoray]

Why is race or gender even a factor here? The factor should be whoever is most qualified for the job, regardless of race or gender

[@JRIVERA1124]

Spacex space suit is better than NASA.....😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@victormarioardilajr.6021]

I like the new spacesuit, much better than SpaceX's bland white, just a little too dark though.

[@hikesystem7721]

Yes the dark cover is super ugly. (Space-X suits are the ugliest, I agree.) NASA suits are beautiful. This covering is meant to cover the technology from the public since it i$ propritary now. However, the covering will be white on the moon.

[@hikesystem7721]

@Clive yes , its ugly. No science behind the dark colored cover. It's function is to hide the science from the public. Suit technology is now viewed by these companies as proprietary, so there is alot the public won't get to know. It's sad NASA gave up on their amazing suit.

[@studiosandrock]

You do realize that a space suit for simple orbiting is different from a space suit for space walking and even walking on the moon.

[@UsedToaster]

@Clive the two suits have different uses. One is for outside the ship.. the other is for only being in the ship on life support in the event of a breach

[@hikesystem7721]

@@studiosandrock I'm sure he knows that the SpaceX suit is not for moon walking...but regardless, it's still cheesy looking.

[@MRantzWI]

Those... scenes... the video of the astronauts falling over on the moon and getting back up again... I know that my mind is telling me one thing and everything I've learned in the history books, etc. ... but my gut..... I just can't get rid of that feeling I get in my gut when I watch those clips.... there's always a small, but persistent.. gnawing feeling in my gut....

[@wsplatinum]

your gut your gut your gut

[@xbox360kanye4]

Gastrointestinal issues

[@somatotrophin1535]

Gaviscon works wonders

[@mcchop1169]

Has any conspiracy theorists ever tried to explain how that would have been filmed? I would be interested to know ow how they created the 1/6 gravity

[@zz4443zz]

Double Quarter Pounders are not daily meals.

[@Jim37042Patterson]

@angryastronaut

[@DevilDogDen1775]

Why are we WASTING billions of taxpayers money for a USELESS purpose ????.... Someone PLEASE stop this !!!!

[@gustusthread2256]

So TRUE! We need to send these billions to ISRAEL, a USEFUL purpose!!

[@michalmoszczynski]

Half of the objects you take for granted nowadays were invented or are spins-off of the technology needed to get invented to get humans to the moon. So sh t f up pls.

[@DevilDogDen1775]

@@michalmoszczynski Know any good polish jokes ????

[@coenogo]

I’d hardly call space development useless. Earth-borne resources are finite, and space development will give us access to nearly infinite deep-space resources. Capturing and mining just a single small asteroid would grant trillions of dollars of materials.

[@LoveSongForADeadGirl]

egg